| 'Is this a joke?' North Carolina voters are being mailed absentee ballot request forms with Trump's face on them Posted: 22 Aug 2020 04:21 AM PDT  President Trump has criticized mail-in voting for months, baselessly asserting that it will lead to voter fraud.
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| Rush Limbaugh: Biden’s ‘Flawless’ DNC Speech ‘Had to Be Taped’ Posted: 21 Aug 2020 01:30 PM PDT  On Thursday night, a series of Fox News hosts and commentators readily acknowledged that Joe Biden "blew a hole" in President Donald Trump's depiction of him as a demented old man by delivering a highly effective speech at the Democratic National Convention. Even Laura Ingraham had to admit that Biden "beat expectations." Rush Limbaugh has a different theory. The conservative radio host who not so long ago received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump during a State of the Union address, spent his show Friday pushing the notion that Biden did not, in fact, deliver his speech live."Now, the assumption I think that everybody had going in, was that he was live," Limbaugh told listeners. But, he added, "Some people are of the opinion that it had to be taped—and that it had to be taped in segments. And the segments had to be edited together." Because, as "some people" think, Biden is "not capable of 22 minutes, even reading a prompter, with no screw-ups." "This is the prevailing theory," Limbaugh added, claiming to know some "professional video people" who are currently studying the tape. "They're trying to find out if it was taped or live, based on the premise that there isn't any evidence that Joe Biden has the ability to go 22 minutes, even on a prompter, without making a mistake, without some kind of a flub." It actually got more outlandish from there as Limbaugh explained that there were a couple of "tiny" mistakes during the speech but his team didn't bother to fix them and they "went by so fast that you'd think that most people wouldn't notice it."Limbaugh summed up his "legitimate question" as, "Was that thing really live, or was it a series of edited-together segments, made to look live, on the premise that Biden isn't capable of 22 minutes, however long it was, of flawless reading, with proper emotion and all that, of what's on a teleprompter, without making a single mistake?" "It'd be hard for him to do," the host concluded. The one explanation Limbaugh wasn't willing to consider is that Biden did. Chris Wallace: Biden Just 'Blew a Hole' in Trump's Demented 'Caricature'Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Oregon UPS driver arrested in string of interstate shootings; 1 was hurt Posted: 21 Aug 2020 07:36 PM PDT  Kenneth Ayers is believed to have been involved in 7 shootings along I-5 since May.
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| As more colleges stay online, students demand tuition cuts Posted: 22 Aug 2020 07:49 AM PDT  As more universities abandon plans to reopen and decide instead to keep classes online this fall, it's leading to conflict between students who say they deserve tuition discounts and college leaders who insist remote learning is worth the full cost. Disputes are flaring both at colleges that announced weeks ago they would stick with virtual instruction and at those that only recently lost hope of reopening their campuses. Among the latest schools facing pressure to lower tuition are Michigan State University and Ithaca College, which scrapped plans to reopen after seeing other colleges struggle to contain coronavirus outbreaks.
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| China approves human testing for coronavirus vaccine grown in insect cells Posted: 22 Aug 2020 06:11 AM PDT  China has approved human testing for a potential coronavirus vaccine cultivated within insect cells, local government in the southwestern city of Chengdu said on Saturday. China is in a global race to develop cost-effective vaccines to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. Using insect cells to grow proteins for the coronavirus vaccine - a first in China - could speed up large-scale production, the city government of Chengdu said in a notice on social media WeChat.
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| California wildfires: Harrowing video shows woman returning to family ranch to find 100 animals burned Posted: 22 Aug 2020 07:23 AM PDT  A California woman who escaped deadly wildfires that have engulfed thousands of acres near her home has lost dozens of livestock at her family ranch.Christa Petrillo Haefner captured a harrowing mobile phone video as fires surrounded her family's ranch in Winters on Thursday. Most of the animals did not survive.
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| Four years later, Republican senators admit, "yes, Trump conspired with the Russians" Posted: 22 Aug 2020 04:29 AM PDT  The Trump-Putin election scheming is laid out in the Republican-led Intelligence Committee's 1,000-page report
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| Army Destroys Cruise and Ballistic Missile Targets in 2nd Test of New Defense System Posted: 21 Aug 2020 07:07 AM PDT  It was the final live-fire exercise in a limited user test of the Army's Integrated Battle Command System.
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| Travelers lost over $950,000 in cash in airport security, TSA says. Where did it go? Posted: 21 Aug 2020 04:30 PM PDT  Don't forget your cash.
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| A Georgia police officer was fired after a viral TikTok showed him tasing a Black woman outside her home Posted: 22 Aug 2020 11:39 AM PDT  Michael Oxford, who had been a police officer since February 2019, was fired for violating policy after a video showed him tasing an unarmed woman.
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| Russia Allows ‘Poisoned’ Putin Critic Alexey Navalny to Fly to Germany For Treatment Posted: 21 Aug 2020 10:04 AM PDT  MOSCOW—As Russia's most prominent opposition figure, Aleksey Navalny, lay in a coma on Friday after a suspected poisoning, a fierce tug-of-war raged between his family and authorities over whether he could be flown to Germany for additional medical treatment. Finally, on Friday night, Russian doctors relented and allowed Navalny to leave the country "on his wife's responsibility." All day, while a German air ambulance waited at the airport in the Siberian city of Omsk, Russian doctors at the hospital where Navalny was being treated and law enforcement agencies had refused to allow him out of Russia. Navalny's wife appealed to President Vladimir Putin in a letter to allow her husband's medical evacuation, but still the negotiations dragged on. (The Kremlin did not ban Navalny from traveling abroad after a previous attack. Somebody doused him with brilliant green antiseptic, damaging his eye, outside of his Anti-Corruption Fund, or FBK, in 2017. Shortly after the attack, Navalny underwent an eye surgery in Madrid.)Now, Navalny's family will get the chance to seek treatment for him in Berlin.Navalny Poison 'Is Dangerous to Those Treating Him'In the meantime, pro-Kremlin publications, some quoting anonymous sources, downplayed the possibility of poison and unspooled a long list of possible reasons why a healthy 44-year-old could have suddenly collapsed in a coma. Alternative causes and diagnoses for Navalny's coma proliferated on state media: He "ate or took something the evening before" was one idea, or "he drank moonshine." Other reports, which suggested the stricken opposition leader is a drug addict, angered even his critics.Ksenia Sobchak, a socialite who ran as a token candidate in the last presidential election from which real opposition figures were excluded, often disagreed with Navalny in political debates. But she defended her rival on Friday: "I have no doubts that this is a political reprisal, and reading about him getting 'drunk on moonshine in the village' is simply disgusting," Sobchak wrote on social media. "Alexey was never seen drunk and there was no question of drugs at all. I am still horrified by the video of his voice on the plane: it's just awful. There are no words to describe the feelings of horror and helplessness in front of such a despicable reprisal."The Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, initially said that Navalny would not leave Russia as the doctors treating him in Siberia thought the flight could be "a threat to life," so long as there is no clarity about what caused Navalny's sickness. Navalny's friends and supporters insisted that what actually threatened his life was poison in the tea he drank at a café in the airport before boarding his flight on Wednesday night. The politician lost consciousness on the plane early in the morning on Thursday. Video shot by another passenger showed him moaning in pain.The director of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, Ivan Zhdanov, told journalists that he and his colleagues were in the head doctor's office when a representative of the local transport police entered the room with a cell phone in her hand and said, "Here is the substance they found in him." Zhdanov asked the name of the substance. "She told us it was classified information but that the substance was deadly dangerous for life, threatening not just Aleksey's life but also everybody around him, everybody should be wearing protective costumes." The intensive care unit treating Navalny has been flooded by police, according to Zhdanov.The head doctor at the hospital, Aleksander Murakhovsky, admitted to reporters that some chemicals had been discovered on the opposition leader's nails and on his clothes. But he said that the chemicals, which he did not name, had nothing to do with Navalny's coma. He later said "metabolic disorders" had caused the coma. The chief editor of Russia Today, a pro-Kremlin outlet, Margarita Simonyan, immediately posted: "They should have given him a spoon of sugar on the plane, nothing would have happened."The Siberian doctors insisted that the conditions and doctors at their hospital were "not any worse," than at the Charité hospital, where Germany was going to provide medical treatment for Navalny. Charité is a leading university hospital in Berlin, treating 152,693 inpatient cases a year. In contrast, photographs of the Omsk hospital, posted by Navalny's press secretary, Kira Yarmysh, showed toilets covered in corrosion, holes in the walls, and missing paint and tiles. By evening, after a day of standoffs over the evacuation, the situation sounded completely bizarre: Navalny's family and supporters said they felt as if they were trying to organize his escape from prison and not transportation from one hospital to another.Navalny's wife, Yulia, spoke to journalists outside the hospital. She was breathing heavily: "I tried to see doctors in the intensive care but some people wearing overcoats inside forced me out in a brutal way," she said. Doctors had stopped talking with her four hours before. "They hide the German doctors from us, this is an outrageous situation. It is obvious that something is being kept in secret from us. We demand they give us Aleksey immediately, so we could take him to doctors who we trust."Navalny's personal doctor denied he had diabetes. After seeing the video of Navalny screaming in pain on the plane, Russian doctors both in Moscow and St. Petersburg expressed their doubts about low blood sugar being the cause of Navalny's coma. "As a rule, a fairly healthy person does not have hypoglycemia unless they starve for two days and work out." Navalny did not starve himself in Siberia. He met with local opposition politicians, and continued his corruption investigation of Tomsk governor Sergey Zhvachkin; he had tea in Tomsk's airport.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Army asks for help in a search for missing Fort Hood soldier Posted: 20 Aug 2020 07:49 PM PDT  The U.S. Army is asking for the public's help in a search for another missing soldier in Texas. Fort Hood officials issued a missing soldier alert Thursday night for Sgt. Elder Fernandes, 23. Police in nearby Killeen said Fernandes was reported missing Wednesday and was last seen or heard from Monday afternoon when his staff sergeant dropped Fernandes off at his home in Killeen.
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| 2 tropical storms a potential double threat to Gulf Coast Posted: 22 Aug 2020 08:27 AM PDT  Tropical Storms Laura and Marco are projected to reach the Gulf Coast at or near hurricane force, with the current track taking them to Texas or Louisiana.
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| Iran agrees inspection deal with UN nuclear watchdog at two nuclear sites Posted: 21 Aug 2020 10:46 AM PDT  Iran has offered to allow UN nuclear inspectors to visit two controversial nuclear sites as part of its diplomatic charm offensive to have the international arms embargo against Tehran lifted, The Daily Telegraph can reveal. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN-sponsored body responsible for monitoring Iran's nuclear activities, has been highly critical of the Iranian regime over its refusal to cooperate with inspectors over claims that it has undertaken illicit activities at two nuclear facilities. The IAEA took the unprecedented step earlier this year of issuing a special report publicly rebuking Iran for its non-cooperation on a number of key nuclear issues, and denying inspectors access to two key Iranian nuclear installations at Marivan and Amad, which inspectors believe have been used for developing and storing nuclear material and form part of Iran's clandestine nuclear weapons programme. Iran has consistently refused to allow the IAEA access to the sites despite signing the 2015 nuclear deal with the US and other major world powers.
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| WHO says children aged 12 and over should wear masks like adults Posted: 22 Aug 2020 11:14 AM PDT  The World Health Organization (WHO) said children aged 12 and over should wear masks to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic under the same conditions as adults, while children between six and 11 should wear them on a risk-based approach. Children aged 12 and over should particularly wear a mask when a one-metre distance from others cannot be guaranteed and there is widespread transmission in the area, the WHO and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a document on the WHO website dated Aug. 21. Whether children between six and 11 should wear masks depends on a number of factors, including the intensity of transmission in the area, the child's ability to use the mask, access to masks and adequate adult supervision, the two organisations said.
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| Sarah Cooper lip syncs to Trump at DNC – and speaks out in support of Biden Posted: 20 Aug 2020 06:54 PM PDT  The lip-synching comedian and viral star Sarah Cooper made an appearance at the DNC and did what she does best – poked fun at Donald Trump.On a night when comedy at times mixed uneasily with the sombre tone of the final night of the convention as a result of the lengthy tributes paid to Joe Biden's late son, Beau, who died from a rare cancer in 2015, Cooper managed to find the perfect words.
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| CDC's hopes for reopening schools safely boosted by 'encouraging' child-care center study Posted: 22 Aug 2020 08:02 AM PDT  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes Rhode Island has provided cause for optimism that schools and child-care programs can reopen safely during the coronavirus, The Washington Post reports.A federal study published Friday on 666 Rhode Island child-care centers that reopened this summer found that new coronavirus cases and secondary transmission linked to the centers were limited. During a 2-month period between June 1 and July 31, there were 52 confirmed and probable cases reported across 29 programs, and 20 of the programs reported only one case, while only four centers had cases that involved possible spread of the virus, the study found. CDC Director Robert Redfield said the "inspiring" article showed "there is a path" to reopening child-care programs and possibly schools safely.The reasons behind the initial success don't appear too complicated — enrollment was restricted to 12 (then raised to 20), staff members and students were confined to specific groups, masking was required for adults, and adults and children were screened daily for symptoms. Basically, people had to buy in, which is simple at first glance, but has been a struggle throughout the pandemic. Rhode Island also allowed for the centers to reopen at a time of low community spread.Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Study, called the data "encouraging," though she doesn't think the study alone is enough to extend the findings to schools since "we think transmission risk may increase with age." But, she added, "the finding that safety measures, such as mask-wearing, can potentially prevent secondary transmission, should increase our confidence that these measures will be important in school settings." Read more at The Washington Post.More stories from theweek.com Small-time scams are dissolving America from the inside Kushner reportedly plans Middle East trip to build on Israel-UAE deal The blocks behind Elizabeth Warren during her DNC speech held a secret message for sharp-eyed viewers
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| Maduro insists a Venezuelan airline evacuate Americans, a ‘non-starter’ in Washington Posted: 21 Aug 2020 02:45 PM PDT  The U.S. has offered private direct and indirect flights to evacuate Americans. Maduro wants to use Venezuela's sanctioned airline.
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| Slate of proposed bills could change policing in California Posted: 22 Aug 2020 03:32 PM PDT  "What we've seen in this country in the last four months, let alone in the last 50, 60 years as it relates to police killings of Black and brown people, calls for addressing," said state Sen. Steven Bradford.
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| Health officials in 3 states have traced new COVID-19 cases to the Sturgis motorcycle rally where hundreds of thousands of bikers gathered Posted: 22 Aug 2020 11:43 AM PDT  Phone-location data revealed that visitors came to Sturgis from all parts of the US, including states that recently saw surges in COVID-19 cases.
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| Portland protest turns violent, federal police clear plaza Posted: 22 Aug 2020 02:03 AM PDT  Federal authorities on Saturday forced demonstrators away from a plaza near a federal building as dueling demonstrations in Portland by right-wing and left-wing protesters turned violent. The area includes county and federal buildings and has been the site of numerous recent protests. A federal courthouse is also near that area.
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| Opinion: A made-for-TV Democratic convention that drew mixed reviews from our readers Posted: 22 Aug 2020 03:00 AM PDT  A virtual convention that had a surreal quality failed to draw an outpouring of strong opinions by readers.
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| 'Melting faster and faster': Greenland lost 1 million tonnes of ice for each minute of 2019 Posted: 22 Aug 2020 01:41 PM PDT  High temperatures saw Greenland lose enough ice to cover the US state of California in more than four feet of water in 2019 alone, a study which suggests the island lost a million tonnes of ice for every minute of the year has said.After two years in which the land masses' summer ice melt had been negligible, satellite measurements have suggested an excessively hot 2019 saw the loss of 586 billion tons of ice melt from the island.
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| Judges Keep Buying the GOP’s Bogus Mail-In Voting Fraud Claims Posted: 22 Aug 2020 02:55 AM PDT  The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee filed lawsuits recently against New Jersey and Nevada to prevent expansive vote-by-mail efforts in those states.These high-profile lawsuits make the same argument that Republicans have made in many lesser known lawsuits that were filed around the country during the primary season. In all of these lawsuits, Republicans argue that voting by mail perpetuates fraud—an argument President Donald Trump makes daily, on various media platforms.Yet, study after study has shown that there is no basis for these claims. Indeed, the opposite is true—voting by mail is rarely subject to fraud. Twitter has even slapped warnings on President Trump's tweets that link vote-by-mail to voter fraud, because they perpetuate false information.Courts, for the most part, have sided with Republicans, and in some cases even adopted the unsubstantiated fraud assertions. The effect of these rulings has been that Americans had to vote in person during the global pandemic, risking their lives. By filing these lawsuits, Republicans are forcing voters to choose between being safe and exercising their fundamental right to vote in November.The Data Proves Mail-In Voting Is Safe From Fraud & COVID-19Here is a representative sample of these lawsuits:• In April, when public health officials were not entirely sure how COVID-19 spread, and stay-at-home orders were in place throughout the country, the Republican-led Wisconsin legislature sued to stop Democratic Governor Tony Evers' executive order extending voting-by-mail deadlines for the primary election. Wisconsin's Supreme Court sided with the Republicans.• That victory was not enough. In a parallel suit, Wisconsin Republicans secured an opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that all mail-in ballots had to be postmarked by primary election day. Dissenting, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stated: "The Court's order, I fear, will result in massive disenfranchisement."• In Texas, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton argued in multiple lawsuits that voting by mail should be available only to actual COVID-19 victims, and not to voters who feared being infected at polling sites. After initially losing in court, Paxton publicly threatened, in writing, to arrest and prosecute any election official who distributed information about voting by mail. This left election officials in a quandary because Paxton's threat conflicted with a state court order that expanded Texas's vote-by-mail measures to all voters.A federal trial court called Paxton's threats "voter intimidation." Undaunted, Paxton successfully appealed both the federal and state court decisions that ruled against him. Both the Texas Supreme Court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Paxton though, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear appeals of those cases, allowing those judgments to stand.In ruling for the Republicans, the Texas Supreme Court stated: "For the population overall, contracting COVID-19 in general is highly improbable" and that "a lack of immunity alone could not be a likely cause of injury to health from voting in person."But, by July 9, primary day, Texas was in the grips of a massive COVID-19 crisis. For each of the 10 days preceding the primary election, there were record numbers of COVID-19-related hospitalizations in the state. Houston hospitals were in danger of running out of hospital beds. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott urged everyone to stay home unless it was an emergency, and issued executive orders reclosing the state. While the pandemic raged around them, Texas voters had to vote in person.• In Missouri, lawsuits by advocacy groups, including the NAACP, sought to expand vote by mail efforts. A state court sided with Republican officials who vigorously opposed the suit and held that "fear of illness" does not qualify as a reason to receive a mail-in ballot.• In Iowa, after a successful vote-by-mail primary on June 2, the Republican legislature tried to prevent the Iowa Secretary of State from running future elections using mail-in ballots. This was not a lawsuit, but mirrors many of the legal actions mounted by the GOP across the country. In response, a bipartisan group of local election officials sent a letter to the legislature, stating: "The 2020 primary was very successful, based on a variety of metrics largely due to the steps taken by the Secretary. Counties experienced record or near-record turnout. Election Day went very smoothly. Results were rapidly available. Why would the state want to cripple the process that led to such success?"Several of the courts discussed above have nonetheless embraced the idea that mail-in voting leads to fraud.For example, in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which sanctioned the Texas Republicans' opposition to voting by mail, Judge James C. Ho wrote a gratuitous supplemental concurring opinion, focusing solely on mail-in ballot fraud. Similarly, the Missouri trial court that refused to expand the pool of voters who could vote by mail discussed voter fraud at length, to justify its decision.Without providing any explanation or evidence to the contrary, these decisions essentially erase scientific findings, cementing into law unsubstantiated and discredited claims linking voting by mail to fraud. This gives these faulty legal decisions tremendous power to impact how Americans vote this November, regardless of the strength of the COVID-19 virus.Judges who preside over newly filed Republican National Committee and Trump campaign lawsuits will undoubtedly look to those opinions because of the similarity in claims. While those decisions do not have to be followed to the letter in New Jersey and Nevada, they still represent a body of law that judges will need to consider. Even flawed judicial opinions have the power to shape the future.Penny Venetis is a clinical professor of law and director of the International Human Rights Clinic at Rutgers University NewarkRead more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Missing Fort Hood soldier a victim of 'abusive sexual contact,' Army says Posted: 22 Aug 2020 03:06 PM PDT  He had been transferred to a different unit to ensure he received proper care and to prevent reprisals, an official said.
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| Turkey announces historic gas discovery in Black Sea Posted: 21 Aug 2020 08:00 AM PDT  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said Turkey had made a historic discovery of gas in the Black Sea, but would still speed up contentious exploration in the Mediterranean that has pitted it against Greece and the EU.
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| US special forces veteran arrested for passing secrets to Russia Posted: 21 Aug 2020 02:45 PM PDT  Former Captain Peter Debbins is charged with passing secrets to Russian military intelligence.
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| Gulf coast braced for two tropical storms in 24 hours next week – for the first time in 60 years Posted: 21 Aug 2020 10:28 AM PDT  Two tropical depressions could hit the US gulf coast, possibly as hurricanes, in the same 24-hour period next week, for the first time in six decades.The first weather system – which meteorologists have labelled Tropical Depression Thirteen (TD-13) – was about 305 miles (490 kilometers) east of the northern Leeward Islands early on Friday morning, with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph (55 kph).
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| Sen. Bob Casey on Biden's shrinking lead in battleground Pennsylvania Posted: 22 Aug 2020 09:19 AM PDT  A new poll shows Joe Biden just four points ahead of President Trump in Pennsylvania; reaction from Democratic Sen. Bob Casey.
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| Furloughed workers trapped in desperate limbo as aid runs out, waiting for jobs that may never return Posted: 21 Aug 2020 02:53 PM PDT  "I've been told many times since June that I could get called back 'any day now,'" said one furloughed worker. "My entire life is on hold and I have to remain available."
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| 3 large corrals approved for western US wild horse roundups Posted: 21 Aug 2020 01:40 PM PDT  The federal Bureau of Land Management has approved construction of three new corrals to hold more than 8,000 wild horses captured on federal rangeland to accelerate horse roundups slowed by a lack of space in existing holding pens. The bureau issued final decisions on environmental assessments of the plans this week for the pens in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. The pens are the next step in plans announced last year by the administration of President Donald Trump to speed up the capture of 130,000 wild horses over 10 years at an estimated cost of $1 billion.
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| A US Air Force F-16 pilot just battled AI in 5 simulated dogfights, and the machine emerged victorious every time Posted: 21 Aug 2020 12:59 PM PDT  A DARPA expert said that the AI demonstrated "superhuman aiming ability" during the dogfight. The human pilot never scored a single hit.
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| Protesters hold seventh anti-Kremlin march over detained governor Posted: 22 Aug 2020 01:50 AM PDT  Around 1,500 people marched through the streets of the Russian far eastern city of Khabarovsk on Saturday, marking the seventh consecutive weekend of protests after the region's governor was detained in early July. Residents of Khabarovsk, 6,110 km (3,800 miles) east of Moscow, have protested since the detention of Sergei Furgal, the region's popular governor, on July 9 in connection with murder charges which he denies. People marched on Saturday with posters reading "Freedom to Furgal" and "Belarus - Khabarovsk is with you" - a sign of support for opposition rallies in Belarus protesting against the alleged rigging of its presidential election.
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| Biden's polling remains steady after DNC, but favorability gets a boost Posted: 22 Aug 2020 09:54 AM PDT  Former Vice President Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, didn't see his general election polling numbers rise in the immediate aftermath of this week's Democratic National Convention, a new Morning Consult poll shows.The poll, which was conducted Friday (one day after Biden gave his acceptance speech completing the four-day DNC) and released Saturday, has Biden up nine points on President Trump, compared to the eight point advantage he enjoyed Monday. But the small improvement is statistically insignificant because of the polls' margins of error.The lack of convention bump so far doesn't appear to be too concerning for the Biden campaign, however. Hillary Clinton did receive a boost in 2016, but Biden was in a stronger position going into the event, and the poll does suggest voters were at least somewhat influenced by the whole thing, since Biden's favorability rating rose three points — and unfavorable views fell by the same amount — since Monday to 51 percent, a single-day high in that category in Morning Consult polling.> 6 point bump for Biden's favorability thanks to a great DNC https://t.co/sp9AvJ0so2> > — Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) August 22, 2020Analysts still think some sort of post-convention bounce should appear in the coming days, though, or else Democrats may start to grow concerned.> DNC went well, but complaints will increase if there's no bounce. A few with some support: > \- Too much Trump focus, need to build Biden > \- Needed to inoculate on crime, will hear next week > \- Needed to paint Reps as siding with the rich & offer specific econ benefits to middle class> > — Matt Grossmann (@MattGrossmann) August 22, 2020The Morning Consult poll was conducted was conducted Friday among 4,377 likely voters. The margin of error was 1 percentage point. Read more at Morning Consult.More stories from theweek.com Small-time scams are dissolving America from the inside Kushner reportedly plans Middle East trip to build on Israel-UAE deal The blocks behind Elizabeth Warren during her DNC speech held a secret message for sharp-eyed viewers
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| Coast Guard stops two separate migrant boats off the Keys this week Posted: 22 Aug 2020 11:46 AM PDT  Twenty people from Cuba were stopped at sea off the Florida Keys this week in two separate attempts to enter the United States, the Coast Guard said Saturday.
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| Double tragedy for Larry King as his son and daughter die in the space of 3 weeks Posted: 22 Aug 2020 03:12 AM PDT  The 86-year-old TV host is mourning the recent loss of both his son Andy and daughter Chaia.
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| Why Australia is facing calls to stop jailing 10-year-olds Posted: 21 Aug 2020 08:15 AM PDT  There is growing momentum to change a law that disproportionately affects Aboriginal children.
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